User blog comment:Dante-Must-Die-Mode/What The Heaven And Hell?: Nero/@comment-967403-20150329222022/@comment-6769189-20150329231516

Except Yamato existed before Vergil and possibly Sparda. There is more to the sword than Vergil.

Nero also exhibits traits of the twins and Sparda.he has Dantes cockiness and rebellious attitude, and his life is basically a Sparda legend reboot. I see him more as the Dante that could have been. Other than Yamato, I don't see much Vergil in Nero aside from wanting power, but his reasoning would align more with Dantes motivation. And the Yamato connection as we know isn't exclusive to Vergil. It connects him to Sparda and whatever may have come before Sparda.

We also don't know whether Yamato had to be fixed by a blood relative, or if Dante was capable of fixing it